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My final deployment with Vets With A Mission is complete. My final tour of duty is finished.

THE FOUNDATION "He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." —Thomas Paine (1791) IN TODAY'S DIGEST The Relentless Prosecutorial Persecution of Donald Trump Executive...

By the time you read this, Shirley and I will have arrived in Saigon, Vietnam. This is my 20th and last trip.

The rocket and mortar shelling started as the plane carrying Benito Gilbert Gomez and other American soldiers landed at Cam Ranh Base in Vietnam in 1968.

As a Vietnam veteran, I understand the concept of winning the battle but losing the war. I have been returning to Vietnam for 32 years now. On every trip, our organization (Vets With A Mission) hosts a “Reconciliation Dinner.” We invite the local communist soldiers that we once fought against to dinner. In fact, our first dinner in 1989 was attended by none other than Morley Safer of “60 Minutes” fame. Our media was never in favor of America’s involvement (anyone surprised?) in Vietnam. Our first trip was also Safer’s first trip back since the communist takeover ...